THE UPPER PITTSGROVE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Upper Pittsgrove township has 40.2 square miles of land in Salem County. Its Census reference point is in Inner Coastal Plain, within Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens.
Sandy coastal landscapes combine beaches, dunes, bays and marshes with oak-pine woodland. These pine-barrens settings form a transition between warmer southern coasts and rockier shores farther north.
Regional context: Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Upper Pittsgrove and Salem County
Upper Pittsgrove is associated with Salem County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Upper Pittsgrove by land and water
The Census records 0.15 square miles of water within Upper Pittsgrove, or 0.4% of its total area. It is 10.6 percentage points lower than the 10.9% recorded for Salem County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Upper Pittsgrove township has 45.3 times the land area of nearby Elmer borough (0.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.